The first part of my conversation with Rose Tattoo’s bass player Geordie Leach covered the early days of his career in Melbourne from where he first met and played with Angry Anderson in Buster Brown, to his migration north to Sydney to join Angry in his new band Rose Tattoo in the late 70’s. Under the guidance of songwriting and producing supremos Harry Vanda and George … [Read more...]
Crime Of The Century – Supertramp
When the first CD player to break the $1000 price barrier went on sale in 1986 for $500 I could at last afford one thanks to Yamaha. But I had a dilemma. With virtually all of my available cash spent on the player I had very little left to purchase some CD’s to play on it. I had just enough to purchase 2 CD’s so I had to choose carefully. I wanted my first CD’s to have a … [Read more...]
The Kick Inside – Kate Bush
The idiosyncratic, mercurial, talented and tenacious Kate Bush. An acquired taste for some, a musical goddess for many others. Her debut album The Kick Inside was released in 1978 when she was still only 19, but its origins were laid years before with some of these songs written when she was just thirteen. The story goes that Kate’s family helped her produce a demo while … [Read more...]
Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
Man I love this album. Yeah, I know that every hard core Stones connoisseur will tell you that Exile On Main Street is the album where the distillation of their garage, blues, country and rock n’ roll influences fused to create their finest recorded moment (and I love that album too), but my favourite Stones album is Sticky Fingers. To be honest it’s hard to separate the … [Read more...]
Parallel Lines – Blondie
The phone rings twice. Pause. Then Debbie Harry launches into “I’m in the phone booth, it’s the one across the hall…” the driving power pop and immediacy of Hanging on the Telephone hits you right between the ears. It’s the perfect entrée to one of the great summer soundtracks that is Parallel Lines, an album I recall with great fondness as a substantial part of my summer of … [Read more...]